PA23C:
Water and Society: The Future of America's Water: Understanding the Landscape of Water Risks, and Addressing the Associated Societal and Economic Impacts II Posters

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Session ID#: 22769

Session Description:
Water is critical for economic growth and security, food and energy production, industrial and urban activities, and environmental services. The United States is currently burdened with aging infrastructure which undermines water quality and exposes communities to the risk of catastrophic failures. In addition, water policies across the Unites States are often regionally specific and do not consider the hydrologic system, leading to inefficient use and overuse of ground and surface water resources. We seek submissions that address America’s major water challenges and opportunities including the nexus of food-energy-water, the changing landscape of water risks (quality, infrastructure, spatial and temporal availability), the impacts of climate change and variability on policymaking, and methods for addressing these issues into the future on a national level.
Primary Convener:  James A Rising, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Mengqian Lu, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Vincent Carroll Tidwell, Sandia Natl Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Emre Eftelioglu, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Chairs:  James A Rising, London School of Economics, Grantham Institute on Climate Change, London, United Kingdom and Michelle Ho, Columbia University, New York City, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Emre Eftelioglu, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Co-Organized with:
Public Affairs, and Hydrology

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
4319 Spatial modeling [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4343 Preparedness and planning [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Forecasting land cover change impacts on drinking water treatment costs in Minneapolis, Minnesota (281693)
Sean Alexander Woznicki and James Wickham, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
National Variation in Crop Yield Production Functions (220812)
Naresh Devineni, CUNY City College of New York, Department of Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States and James A Rising, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Spatiotemporal Co-variability of Surface Climate for Renewable Energy across the Contiguous United States: Role of the North Atlantic Subtropical High (220990)
Kenji Doering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Scott Steinschneider, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
High-Elevation Sierra Nevada Conifers Reveal Increasing Reliance on Snow Water with Changing Climate (226906)
Kai Lepley, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development, & Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, David M Meko, University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, Tucson, AZ, United States, Ramzi Touchan, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Eylon Shamir, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States and Rochelle Graham, Hydrologic Reseach Center, San Diego, CA, United States
Evaluating Non-potable Water Usage for Oil and Gas Purposes in the Permian Basin Using Reactive Transport Modeling (275225)
Kara Marsac and Alexis Navarre-Sitchler, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States

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